Safety-harness for children.



M. M. HALLETT.

SAFETY HARNESS FOR CHILDREN.

APPLICATION TILED JUNE 5 1913.

1,123,278. Patented Jan. 5, 1915.

MAUDE M. HALLETT, OF OAKLPARK, ILLINOIS.

SAFETY-HARNESS non CHILDREN.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, MAUDE M. HALLETT, a resident of Oak Park, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety- Harness for Children, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to safety harness for children.

One object of the invention is to provide an improved harness which, when applied to a child, will hold it safely in a chair or cart against upward movement out of a chair and also against slipping down in the chair.

Children sometimes attempt. to slip down under the front board of a chair as well as attempting to rise out of it. It has heretofore been proposed to use a harness which would hold the child against moving upwardly, but these did not effectively hold the child from wriggling out of the harness, npr from slipping down in the chair and out o it.

The invention further designs to provide an improved harness for children which will safely guard the child against injury.

The invention consists in the novel features hereinafter set forth and more particularly defined by the claim at the conclusion hereof.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective of the improved safety harness in use. Fig. 2 is a perspective upon an enlarged scale of the harness.

The im roved device comprises a beltw or band 3 a apted to fit around the abdomen and which is provided with a buckle 4 at the back, to permit the band to be applied and removed from the child and to permit it to be adjusted to the child. Buckle 4 is preferably located at the back of the band,

so that the child cannot tamper with it. At each side of band 3 a short loop 5 is secured. Each of these loops comprises a buckle 6 which permits "it to be ad ustably connected to the arm of a chair. which is usually disposed in close proximit height of the band 3.

to or about the y means of these Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 5, 1913. Serial No. 771,805.

Patented J an. 5, 1915.

short loops and the connection to the band, the child is held so that it cannot lift itself up sufficiently to endanger falling out and further, the downward play permitted by these loops is insufficient to permit the child to slide down or forwardly from or out of the chair. Shoulder-straps 7 are secured to the front of the waist-band as at 8, are crossed in front of the child, and their rear ends are secured to the waist-band 3, as at 9. A band 10 also secured to the front of the band 3 at 8, is secured to the shoulderstraps as at 11, and is provided at its rear with a buckle 12 for adjustably connecting its ends. This band 10 is adapted to extend across the back and under the arms of the child, to effectively prevent the child from slipping downwardly in or out of the harness.

In this manner, the harness, in its entirety, including the crossed shoulder straps and the band 10 are adapted to be securely applied to the child so it cannot wriggle out of it and by employing'attaching devices which prevent excessive down ward movement of the harness, the latter effectively serves to prevent injury to the child, either from rising out of the chair or from slipping downwardly in the chair.

The invention is not to be restricted to the details set forth, since these may be modified Within the scope'of the appended claim without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

A childs safety harness, com rising a plurality of bands attached direct y to each other one adapted to extend around the abdomen and the other under the arms, crossed shoulder: straps secured to both of the bands, and attaching devices connected to the side of the abdomen band for securing the harness to hold the child against displacement.

' MAUDE M. HALLETT. Witnesses:

Mmmmn S'mmr, FRANKS. Bmnonm.

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